CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE The Quandary -- 1. Mach's Shadow -- 1. The New Quantum Mechanics -- 2. The Legacy of Ernst Mach -- 3. "It Is the Theory Which Decides What We Can Observe" -- 4. Leaving Mach Behind -- 2. Einstein's Dilemma -- 1. "God Does Not Play Dice" -- 2. What Is Real? -- 3. The Mechanistic Universe -- 4. What Is Time? -- 5. Special Relativity: The Basic Postulates -- 6. The Relativity of Simultaneity -- 7. An Ultimate Speed -- 8. The Eternal Present -- 9. The Case for Strict Causality -- 3. The Call of Complementarity -- 1. Bohr Introduces the Framework of Complementarity -- 2. Light: Particles or Waves? -- 3. Light: Particles and Waves? -- 4. What Can We Know About an Electron? -- 5. Bohr Is Looking for the Right Words -- 6. The Significance of the Framework of Complementarity -- 7. Atoms Are Not "Little Things" -- 4. Waves of Nothingness -- 1. Schr6dinger's Wave Mechanics -- 2. The Wave and Particle Aspects in a Single Set-up: The Double-Slit Experiment -- 3. What Is an Electron? -- 4. Electrons as Fields of Potentialities -- 5. Description of Reality or Description of Knowledge? -- 5. Paul Dirac and the Spin of the Electron -- 1. Dirac's Transformation Theory -- 2. The Physics of Spinning Objects -- 3. The Spin of the Electron -- 4. The Relativistic Wave Equation -- 6. An In"esistible Force Meets an Immovable Rock -- 1. A Clash of Minds -- 2. The Beginning -- 3. The Uncertainty Principle Under Fire -- 4. Is Quantum Mechanics Incomplete? -- 5. "Elements of Reality" -- 6. The EPR Thought Experiment -- 7. The Right to Be Wrong -- 7- "Nature Loves to Hide" -- 1. The EPR Thought Experiment: A Reformulation -- 2. Dr. Bertlemann's Socks -- 3. Bell's Modifications of the EPR Thought Experiment -- 4. The Case of the Contrary Couples -- 5. Bell's Inequalities -- 6. The Experimental Situation.

7. Influences and Signals -- 8. Recent Developments -- 9. In a Minor Key -- PART TWO From a Universe of Objects to a Universe of Experiences -- 8. The Elusive Obvious -- 1. The Schizophrenic Physicists -- 2. Locality and Realism -- 3. The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness -- 4. The Concrete, the Abstract, and Bell's Inequalities -- 5. The Perspective of Complementarity -- 9. Objectivation -- 1. The "Hypothesis of the Real World" -- 2. The Exclusion of the "Subject of Cognizance" -- 3. Objectivation: The Disastrous Consequences -- 4. Beyond the Subject/Object Mode -- l0. In and Out of Space and Time -- 1. Elementary Quantum Events -- 2. The Structure of the Collapse -- 3. Eternal Order and Temporal Order, or Heisenberg in the Gutter -- 4. Processes Outside of Space and Time -- 5. Discursive Reasoning and Contemplation -- 11 "Nature Makes a Choice" -- 1. Keeping It Simple -- 2. The Timing -- 3. Can Choices Be Avoided? -- 4. Who Done It? -- 5. Quantum Mechanics and the New Paradigm -- 12. Nature Alive -- 1. Beyond Objectivation -- 2. The Wisdom of the Sphinx -- 3. "Ye Presences of Nature" -- 4. From Mitchell's Harmonious Planet to Jensen's Angry Sculptures -- 5. Knud Jensen's Angry Sculptures -- 6. Science and the Life of "Inanimate Things" -- 7. The Soul of the Universe -- 8. Being Touched by the Soul of the Universe -- 13. Flashes of Existence -- 1. Elementary Quantum Events: Now You See It, Now You Don't -- 2. What Is Matter? -- 3. The Loss of Identity, or Identity Is in the Mind of the Beholder -- 14. The Expression of Knowledge -- 1. The Experience of the Real, or Knowledge Unlimited -- 2. Formulation of an Insight, or Knowledge Limited -- 3. The Place of Speculative Thought -- 4. Peter's Wrath -- 15. A Universe of Experience -- 1. Occasions of Experience -- 2. What Is an Experience? -- 3. The Reorganization of Thought.

4. The Cosmological Function of Feelings -- 5. "The Elucidation of Things Observed" -- 6. The Evidence of Quantum Mechanics -- 7. A Grin Without a Cat -- 8. Shifting Gears -- 16. The Potential and the Actual -- 1. The Coexistence of Contraries -- 2. Delayed-Choice Experiments -- 3. The Potential Enters the Actual -- 4. The Collapse of Quantum States -- 5. Description of Reality or Description of Knowledge? -- 6. What Does "Ontic" and "Epistemic" Mean? -- 7. The Double Slit Pattern -- 8. Is the Collapse Instantaneous? -- 9. A Fresh Look at Bell's Experiment -- 10. The Nature of the Whiteheadian Paradigm -- PART THREE Physics and the One -- 17. Levels of Being -- 1. Levels of Experience -- 2. The Sources of Experiences -- 3. The Experience of the Noumenal -- 4. The Hierarchy of Being According to Plotinus -- 5. Nature Contemplates -- 6. The Laws of Nature -- 7. The Interface Between the Noumenal and the Phenomenal Realms -- 8. The Conjunction of Order and Randomness -- 9. Plotinus and the Emergent World-View -- 18. Our Place in the Universe -- 1. Do We Have a Place in the Universe? -- 2. The Role of the Observer According to Quantum Mechanics -- 3. PhYSical Laws As Indications of General Truths -- 4. The Anatomy of Discovery -- 5. Our Place in the Natural Order -- 6. Acts of Contemplation -- 7. The Call of the Noumenal -- 8. The Significance of Conscious Attention -- 19. Physics and the One -- 1. Physics and the Subject of Cognizance -- 2. Self and Ego -- 3. The Oneness of Mind -- 4. Transcending the Subject/Object Mode -- 5. The Limitation of Science -- 6. The Quest of Physics: Grand Unification -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.